Honored to be screening MAKARA with the Basquiat estate at Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure on September 27th in NYC. Tickets are limited!
@basquiatkingpleasure
Curated by @ant_konig
Premiering Earth Mother, Sky Father @nowness ———————————————————————
Featuring @storypboard
With Music by @shabazzpalaces ———————————————————————
LINK IN THE BIO.
Dir by me
Produced by @liam_y
Cinematography by: @alantor@alexey.marfin
1st AC: @a.photo.memory
2nd AC: @mojdehghanbari
CG/VFX: me
Color: @alantor ……………………................................................................ #film #afrofuturism #cyberpunk #performance #congo #film #dance #shortfilm #musicvideo #filmmusic #afropunk
The Third Horizon will be presented as an installation at the New Museum as part of DEMO2026, presented by NEW INC and the New Museum.
The work brings together moving image, performance documentation, and excerpted material from IF NOT NOW alongside elements from Animalation.
Make Believe is a 46-minute animated visual essay about immaterial fictions and how images shape futures we don’t yet understand.
A work-in-progress toward my first feature, Exodus: a coming-of-age story of a young man, a rebellion, and the death of a mother told through the biomythography of my father and a Buffalo who guides him.
Shot through a 240mm lens inside software not built for cinema, the film treats the body as landscape.
Accompanied by a written essay and a chopped & screwed rework of “Rain.”
THE THIRD HORIZON — A Film Triptych
I’ll be showing three films at Now Instant in Los Angeles on April 30th:
Makara, Earth Mother, Sky Father, and an excerpt from IF NOT NOW excerpt.
These works sit between film, performance, and sound thinking through ritual, memory, and speculative futures.
Two screenings:
7:00 PM (with conversation)
8:15 PM
Tickets: @now_instant
Programming by: @moun.sous
939 Chung King Rd
Come through.
Years in the making, I had the privilege of working on BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions as a VFX Supervisor, designing the Nautica along with several other speculative sci-fi vessels for the film.
To the outstanding VFX team @ademacalinao , Sam Brady, @corduroy.fx you already know! Much love!
One of the most electrifying projects I’ve ever been a part of.
If you haven’t seen it yet, do yourself a favor and take this as my word. You won’t leave the same way you came in.
Streaming now on platforms!
Grateful to Kahlil, Onye and the entire BLKNWS family.
@blknws@terms_conditions.img@_p.a.r.a.l.l.a.x_
Animalation II
A musical apparition moving through public space, part of my upcoming film IF NOT NOW.
Over the past few days, the work lived on the screens at the Music Center, shifting between image, movement, and sound.
Final showing today:
6:37 PM
6:54 PM
7:07 PM
7:24 PM
Grateful to everyone who encountered it in passing.
Made with an incredible team.
Directed & Written — Tafa
Production — @serialpictures
Performer — @bonesthemachine
Choreography — @marlontaylorwiles
Photo — john McCoy
Special thanks @futureofnonfiction
Animalation II is live on the Music Center plaza LED screens until March 31! Catch it at 6:37 pm, 6:54 pm, 7:07 pm, and 7:24 pm each evening.
Performance by @bonesthemachine
IF NOT NOW
First public screening of my short film IF NOT NOW at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of Aama Studio’s Threads of Legacy Film Salon.
The film follows a father and son experimenting with “LIVITY” geo-engineering to move through space and time. A speculative meditation on extinction, memory, and rebirth grounded in the worldview of Rastafarian philosophy.
March 21
3PM & 5PM screenings
@lacma
Written & Directed @jatafa
Music by @jamire.williams from But Only After You Have Suffered
Produced with @serialpictures
Made with an incredible team. Full credits coming soon.
RSVP in bio
Make Believe is a 46-minute visual essay on immaterial fiction inside a software made for material and light. The film unfolds across 4 screens as a meditation on cinematic essays and mythmaking, featuring a “chopped and screwed” reinterpretation of Rain by Daniel Caesar featuring Sampha.
Group Show Details:
Friday, March 20, 2026
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Presented by The Music Center
ANIMALATION II
A durational billboard on the Jerry Moss Plaza LED screens and the second installment from the upcoming film IF NOT NOW.
A musical apparition moving through public space, the work transforms the plaza into a site for expanded cinema.
March 20, 2026 | 6–9 PM
Jerry Moss Plaza LED Screens
The Music Center, Los Angeles
Directed & Written — Kordae Jatafa Henry
Production — @serialpictures
Performer — @bonesthemachine
Movement Director — @marlontaylorwiles
Cinematography — @htatlinhtut
Music — @jamire.williams
